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Redditch Heritage Windsor-Clives

The Benevolent Windsor-Clives

Land owners and benefactors

Life and Times of The Benevolent Windsor-
Clives

The Windsor-Clives of Hewell Grange were vwer generous
benefactors to the town of Redditch. Amongst the bequests
were:-

1814 - Earl of Plymouth gave to the village of Redditch
a fine cow, 2 large sheep and a large oxen and
a cow was also sent to the surrounding poor at Hewell Grange, Home of the
Tardebigge. It was in celebration of the end of Windsor-Clives
the Napoleonic war.
(Source: Wikipeda)
1817 - 6th Earl of Plymouth at his own expense caused
an addition to be made to the chapel, for the
exclusive use of the poor.

1840 - The Hon. Robert and Lady Harriet Clive, erected a parsonage house at a cost
of between one and two thousand pounds which was attached to Tardebigge
vicarage.

1845 - Lady Harriet Clive laid the foundation stone of the National school at the top
of Peakman Street, which her husband Hon Robert Clive had given the land
for and the school opened in 1846.

1846 - The Hon R. H. Clive gave for division into garden allotments about 20 acres of
valuable land in Redditch.

1850 - Headless Cross was formed into an Ecclesiastical District, independent of
Tardebigge, Feckenham and Ipsley. The Hon. R. H. Clive gave about 5 acres
of land upon which the parsonage house was built. He also supplied all the
material for the erection of the building’

1853 - The Hon. R. H. Clive with his usual beneficence, offered land for the purpose
of a new cemetery.

1854 - The Lady Harriet gave funds for the tower and spire of St Stephen’s Church.

1855 - The Lady Harriet Clive gave £100 towards the collection of £163.16s.3d., on
the day of the consecration of St Stephen’s Church.

1859 - The Baroness Windsor munificiently offered a piece of land for a recreation
ground in Easemore Lane, Redditch.

1866 - Baroness Windsor gave £200 towards the St Luke’s Church enlargement,
Headless Cross.

Source/Researched by: wikipedia

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